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david plouffe is next. the political panel will stick around. but first what is david plouffe going to eat after the interview? white house soup of the day is tomato base ill. follow the show on facebook. you're watching "daily rundown" on msnbc. i took dayquil, but i still have a runny nose. [ male announcer ] dayquil doesn't treat that. huh? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus rushes relief to all your worst cold symptoms, plus it relieves your runny nose. [ sighs ] thank you! [ male announcer ] you're welcome. that's the cold truth! [ male announcer ] why do more emergency workers everywhere trust duracell...?? duralock power preserve. locks in power for up to 10 years in storage. now...guaranteed. duracell with duralock. trusted everywhere. >>> i have as much experience in the congress as jack kennedy did when he sought the presidency. >> senator, i served with jack kennedy. i knew jack kennedy. jack kennedy was a friend of mine. senator, you're no jack kennedy. >> by the way, flashback this day in 1988 one of the most memorable lines, a re
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today, the senior advisor david plouffe told me we'll know in two weeks. one of sus right, one is wrong. the bravado is gone and they don't know how this will end. >> defense industry workers who went to bed right after the debate resting the little easier perhaps. because of the promise of no sequestration got a rude awakening this morning. doug mckelway tells us that is not what the president meant i apparently. >> across the board cuts to take effect on january 2 and it happened when president said this. >> first, this is not something that i propose. this is something that congress proposed and won't happen. >> david plouffe walked it back telling reporters sequestration should not happen. the shift of the not so subtle acknowledgment that the threat of sequestration is a bargaining ship that they may use to get republicans in distasteful tax increases in the lame duck session. in virginia, where one out of four adults works at defense or government job threatened by sequestration, defense contractor william hobson fears the impact. >> that is the bigg
today, the senior advisor david plouffe told me we'll know in two weeks. one of sus right, one is wrong. the bravado is gone and they don't know how this will end. >> defense industry workers who went to bed right after the debate resting the little easier perhaps. because of the promise of no sequestration got a rude awakening this morning. doug mckelway tells us that is not what the president meant i apparently. >> across the board cuts to take effect on january 2 and it happened...
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david plouffe. finally, insights and analysis from our political roundtable. joining us, conservative activist and founder of the faith and freedom coalition ralph reed. former democratic governor of pennsylvania ed rendell. anchor of bbc's "world news america" katty kay. and our chief white house correspondent and political director chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning. with both sides in full preparation mode for wednesday's first presidential debate, the struggling romney campaign is recalibrating his message to better connect with voters on the economy and to attack the president on his handling of the latest foreign policy crisis, the evolving explanation of what exactly happened in libya when our u.s. ambassador was killed more than two weeks ago on 9/11. we'll hear from a top obama adviser, david plouffe, in a moment. but first, joining me now, the republican governor of new jersey chris christie. welcome back to "meet the press." >> happy to be back, david. good morning. >> the key battlegrou
david plouffe. finally, insights and analysis from our political roundtable. joining us, conservative activist and founder of the faith and freedom coalition ralph reed. former democratic governor of pennsylvania ed rendell. anchor of bbc's "world news america" katty kay. and our chief white house correspondent and political director chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning. with both sides in full preparation mode for wednesday's first presidential debate, the struggling romney...
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so as david plouffe said, you learn things as you go along. and clearly this will be a topic of conversation. it could be a topic this week. it will be a topic later in the month during the foreign policy debate. and it guarantees that libya and perhaps some of the policies behind it will be -- will be a topic of conversation for the two. you know that said, i'm not sure it will have a decisive effect on the debate or on the election. what we do know is that the security inside these temporary facilities outposts in benghazi was in retrospect insufficient. there are reasons for that, but i don't think -- you know, it will be a lot of political costs to just the fact that -- there are things that we just don't know yet. we have an asked who the group was. we don't know whether they did this on their own or perhaps had instructions from a larger group like al qaeda. >> p.j., i keep thinking back to the first round of interviews that susan rice did on the sunday shows where she initially proposed the youtube video was at the root of chris stevens
so as david plouffe said, you learn things as you go along. and clearly this will be a topic of conversation. it could be a topic this week. it will be a topic later in the month during the foreign policy debate. and it guarantees that libya and perhaps some of the policies behind it will be -- will be a topic of conversation for the two. you know that said, i'm not sure it will have a decisive effect on the debate or on the election. what we do know is that the security inside these temporary...
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he and david plouffe says we have to protect the narrative we have. megyn: a man in this role is not suppose to be politicizing. that your supposition's leaking. >> i will tell you sandy berger, the national security adviser did come to our political meetings but with the express purpose of making sure the political staff, the political team did not offer national security advice. and berger and the president were clear we are there to provide political advice, not national security advice. megyn: when politics are influence can the announcements made to american people -- >> the press' job is to go after everybody. in 1979 when i swiewmped your show earlier, watching the arguments in defense of this. about the president, i said any other president, democrat or republican would be crucified while the council was still smoking to go to las vegas for a fundraiser. jimmy carter when the hostages were seized. we were behind ted kennedy, the senior campaign people went in and argued with him that he had to continue to campaign. you know what he said? absol
he and david plouffe says we have to protect the narrative we have. megyn: a man in this role is not suppose to be politicizing. that your supposition's leaking. >> i will tell you sandy berger, the national security adviser did come to our political meetings but with the express purpose of making sure the political staff, the political team did not offer national security advice. and berger and the president were clear we are there to provide political advice, not national security...
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david plouffe. welcome back. >> good morning, david. >> governor christie says thursday morning the entire narrative of the race will change after the debates. looks like romney is expecting a good showing. >> i think governor christie is articulating what governor romney's campaign believes, that they'll change this race fundamentally. they talk about how this will be like 1980 and reagan surged to a huge lead. that's really the marker here. they set it out. they expect to come out of this with the race fundamentally changed. what does that mean? if it's going to fundamentally change that means in seven or 10 days from now you'll see states like ohio tied and iowa tied. so they have set the bar quite high. challengers tend to benefit from debates. we have expected all along that governor romney will have a good night. he is prepared more than any candidate in history. and he has shown himself to be a very good debater through the years. so we understand that this is an important moment. we're just
david plouffe. welcome back. >> good morning, david. >> governor christie says thursday morning the entire narrative of the race will change after the debates. looks like romney is expecting a good showing. >> i think governor christie is articulating what governor romney's campaign believes, that they'll change this race fundamentally. they talk about how this will be like 1980 and reagan surged to a huge lead. that's really the marker here. they set it out. they expect to...
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it's sad, just listen to obscene your advisor and anthropomorphized vanishing sound david plouffe. (laughter) jim? >> we've accepted that governor romney will have a good night. he's prepared more than any candidate in himselfry and shown himself to be a good debater through the years. we're sure he'll put on quite a show wednesday. >> yes, if there's one word america associates with mitt romney it's "show." (laughter) meanwhile, the romney people aren't playing these silly games. they're just being honest when they hail the president as a uniquely gifted speaker who is widely regarded as one of the most talented political communicators in modern history. (laughter) yes! he's a one-in-a-generation statesman whose rhetorical gift touched the human soul! when he speaks sparrows of the wood alight upon barack's shoulders as they did upon saint francis of assisi. he's no mere man he's a silver-tongued angel whose words can cure the sick, soothe the troubled and be used as a flotation device in an t event of a water landing. (cheers and applause) so romney-- so romney has got no chance
it's sad, just listen to obscene your advisor and anthropomorphized vanishing sound david plouffe. (laughter) jim? >> we've accepted that governor romney will have a good night. he's prepared more than any candidate in himselfry and shown himself to be a good debater through the years. we're sure he'll put on quite a show wednesday. >> yes, if there's one word america associates with mitt romney it's "show." (laughter) meanwhile, the romney people aren't playing these...
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. >> dana: here is what the senior white house advisor david plouffe says about how he has handled libya catastrophe in particular. >> was it inappropriate to go to fundraiseer the day after the attack in retrospect knowing it was a terrorist attack? inappropriate to engage in politics as usual? >> no. the president is 24/7 engaged in the job of the presidency. he spent an enormous time and weeks by the way in the aftermath of this terrible tragedy. absolutely not. president is on call 24/7. that comes with the job. >> dana: do you remember, bob, the day that president obama on september 11 when he flew to vegas i said this will be the biggest mistake. they don't make a lot of mistakes on the obama campaign but to me that was the biggest political mistake of the campaign so far. >> bob: i agree with you. i agreed when you said that. i don't think i would have gone to of all places las vegas. but to suggest that the president needs to be around during every terrorist attack. there have been terrorist attacks every time a citizen dies, soldier dies, that is a terrorist attack. to suggest t
. >> dana: here is what the senior white house advisor david plouffe says about how he has handled libya catastrophe in particular. >> was it inappropriate to go to fundraiseer the day after the attack in retrospect knowing it was a terrorist attack? inappropriate to engage in politics as usual? >> no. the president is 24/7 engaged in the job of the presidency. he spent an enormous time and weeks by the way in the aftermath of this terrible tragedy. absolutely not. president...
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. >> the obama campaign, david plouffe is a chris christie of the campaign saying their campaign is built on a tripod of lies and the president has said sometimes they just make things up. >> last i checked, isn't this called politics? you have lying all the time in politics. it is our responsibility to call folks out on it. on my tv 1 show, i have a segment called the biggest damn lie. >> that's got to be a very tough line to draw. >> some lies are much bigger than the others. you have to call folks out on it. here's the problem i have when it comes to a debate. when you hear lies on a debate, they should be called on out on the spot. when you hear a lie, it shouldn't be, hmmm. it should be i'm sorry, mr. romney or president obama, that's not true because with so many people watching, people want to know i'm hearing the truth. it shouldn't be let me wait two hours later to get the truth. call them out on the lies whoever says it, on the spot. >> sometimes, that takes a tough level of preparation. >> that's why you have a team to decide and that's their job. >> it's not just about prepara
. >> the obama campaign, david plouffe is a chris christie of the campaign saying their campaign is built on a tripod of lies and the president has said sometimes they just make things up. >> last i checked, isn't this called politics? you have lying all the time in politics. it is our responsibility to call folks out on it. on my tv 1 show, i have a segment called the biggest damn lie. >> that's got to be a very tough line to draw. >> some lies are much bigger than the...
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axelrod and david plouffe and the chicago crowd. >> yeah. >> and they had the last word sort of with the president before he went into the ring, and whatever they advised him to do was not what the preparers thought they had prepared the president for. there's a certain amount of monday morning finger pointing going on inside the obama camp, and interestingly, that's something you didn't see at all in -- >> it's not a good sign. >> everything was so smooth in 2008. now you have a situation where there's a little bit of finger pointing going on. it will be greatly alleviated if joe biden can turn in a good performance on thursday. >> let's take a look at this, mr. mayor. go ahead, did you want to say something? >> go ahead. >> you can't refight the last fight. last wednesday was last wednesday. we can't debate the debate. let's move on. we have one this week. we have 30 days to go. you know, every day is not a spectacular day for any one of us in these professions that we have. president obama is the same president he was last tuesday, last wednesday, last thursday. moving this countr
axelrod and david plouffe and the chicago crowd. >> yeah. >> and they had the last word sort of with the president before he went into the ring, and whatever they advised him to do was not what the preparers thought they had prepared the president for. there's a certain amount of monday morning finger pointing going on inside the obama camp, and interestingly, that's something you didn't see at all in -- >> it's not a good sign. >> everything was so smooth in 2008. now...
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david plouffe walked it back. i understand nobody wants this to happen but by saying it do you think it messed up the negotiating stance of the democrats here? >> not in the least. i've heard from more republicans who are prepared to do what they think is reasonable, which is not what mitt romney is proposing. mind you, chuck, mitt romney has signed the grover norquist pledge not to raise any revenue. he doubled down on in in both debates. he said, i won't take 10-1, i won't ways revenue. that's the formula for gridlock. that is what stopped the super committee i served on from getting an agreement because they signed a pledge to l lobbyists -- >> sequester going to happen -- >> let me finish the thought. many republicans have come up to me and said, we've had enough of that pledge. we have to move forward. not mitt romney. he's running on the pledge but the republicans and the senate say -- >> they won't do it. >> they won't do it because you'd lose 3% to 4% of gdp, 000s of jobs rapidly. it would be disastrous fo
david plouffe walked it back. i understand nobody wants this to happen but by saying it do you think it messed up the negotiating stance of the democrats here? >> not in the least. i've heard from more republicans who are prepared to do what they think is reasonable, which is not what mitt romney is proposing. mind you, chuck, mitt romney has signed the grover norquist pledge not to raise any revenue. he doubled down on in in both debates. he said, i won't take 10-1, i won't ways revenue....
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david plouffe in his book, after the 2008 election, said that one of the reasons they chose joe biden is because he won every one of the 14 debates in 2008 in the primary. he's a very experienced debater. he did very well in his debate, vice presidential debate. he's been doing this for a long time. david axelrod, as you all know, parachuted in to commandeer the debate. >> did paul ryan speak to sarah palin for any advice? >> he did not. the truth is over the last few days he's been focused on his preparations. as you may know from your experience in washington, he often puts on head phones, does a lot of reading. he hasn't been doing a lot of phone calls. >> and a lot of p90x. dan senor, thanks for getting up early. see you tonight. wall street appears to be rebounding as weekly jobless claims come out. market rundown is next. plus paul ryan's other opponent. the guy who's trying to take ryan's house seat in wisconsin. he came here to danville, kentucky, because he's looking for a debate of his own. first today's trivia question. which former vice presidents ran against one another f
david plouffe in his book, after the 2008 election, said that one of the reasons they chose joe biden is because he won every one of the 14 debates in 2008 in the primary. he's a very experienced debater. he did very well in his debate, vice presidential debate. he's been doing this for a long time. david axelrod, as you all know, parachuted in to commandeer the debate. >> did paul ryan speak to sarah palin for any advice? >> he did not. the truth is over the last few days he's been...
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. >> bret: white house advisor david plouffe declined to comment directly saying reaction should come from the romney campaign, because, "donald trump is mitt romney's biggest supporter so he owns everything trump says." the internet seemed underwhelmed. the daily caller noted something a bit odd in their in-box today. "newsweek" is still selling one-year subscriptions for the low rate of just $37. not even the fine print tells the whole story. "i figured it might disclose the detail that 'newsweek' will cease printing the magazine in little over two months. but no, it says the offer valid in usa only and subject to change." the daily caller speculates it might be a case of consumer fraud, especially since the soon to be defunked magazine delivers through the u.s. mail. >>> like floodwaters surging over a dam, the rising tide of debt in europe is threatening to inundate the continent's economy and spill over right here at home. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot reports from london on how bad things are getting. >> the car industry in europe are taking hits about america
. >> bret: white house advisor david plouffe declined to comment directly saying reaction should come from the romney campaign, because, "donald trump is mitt romney's biggest supporter so he owns everything trump says." the internet seemed underwhelmed. the daily caller noted something a bit odd in their in-box today. "newsweek" is still selling one-year subscriptions for the low rate of just $37. not even the fine print tells the whole story. "i figured it might...
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i remember david plouffe or his assistant ms. johnson at 10:00 at night when i called everybody to my desk she said to make sure everybody watches the speech. people came from the shadows of the headquarters and it is nighttime and i have this team of people around me and we are talking. talking its all of a sudden you see everybody in the headquarters headed towards the tv. the president was about to speak -- the candidate was about to speak. he gave this speech called yes we can. he talked about -- it was the best victory speech i had never heard. in heard. it talked abouthe long lines at the poll. he congratulated hillary clinton on a great race. he went on to talk about the long lines at the polls and how you made this happen. he was talking to hillary's staff as well. literally, at headquarters, when he was done, everybody started talking, as if he had been speaking to us. so that was a real value. david plouffe put together an e- mail. he treated us as if everybody was a stakeholder. he always made you feel he was bringing
i remember david plouffe or his assistant ms. johnson at 10:00 at night when i called everybody to my desk she said to make sure everybody watches the speech. people came from the shadows of the headquarters and it is nighttime and i have this team of people around me and we are talking. talking its all of a sudden you see everybody in the headquarters headed towards the tv. the president was about to speak -- the candidate was about to speak. he gave this speech called yes we can. he talked...
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is it true what david plouffe said then? >> of course it's not true, it's not the right thing for mitt romney. that's what what's on the american people's minds. that's what families talk about at the dinner table at home about how bad the economy is, how weak the job market is, about how family incomes have gone down under the obama administration, so the best thing that anybody can do for romney is to keep people focused on most important thing and that's the economy and jobs. even obama has finally two weeks before the election come out with a jobs plan. >> well, all right, let me ask you, governor, is this sort of a dream come true for democrats that trump did this? >> why are we even uttering the man's name? really, he is just a carnival barker. this is all about him. the only october surprise would be that if donald trump didn't call attention to himself. but you know, i mean governor barber, the president's jobs plan that he put out is actually the same plan that he has been talking about for years. same plan that he
is it true what david plouffe said then? >> of course it's not true, it's not the right thing for mitt romney. that's what what's on the american people's minds. that's what families talk about at the dinner table at home about how bad the economy is, how weak the job market is, about how family incomes have gone down under the obama administration, so the best thing that anybody can do for romney is to keep people focused on most important thing and that's the economy and jobs. even...
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>> on "meet the press" david plouffe was asked by david gregory if politics had anything to do with the administration labeling the assault as terrorism? >> the president's challenger said the president failed to level with the american people and call this a terrorist attack because you had to be concerned about another terrorist attack from al qaeda in the middle east after the president said that al qaeda had been defeated. >> that's preposterous and offensive to say that. as information was received from the intelligence community, it was distributed this president's record on terrorism takes a back seat to no one. >> was this an intelligence failure? >> no this was a complex event. we're only talking a matter of weeks here. so as information was arrived at, as determinations were made that was shared with the mesh people. i think, again, the focus needs to be how do we make sure our facilities and ambassadors and personnel are secure going forward. >> and we have this morning some breaking news out of afghanistan. a spokesman for the u.s.-led coalition says at least 14 people inclu
>> on "meet the press" david plouffe was asked by david gregory if politics had anything to do with the administration labeling the assault as terrorism? >> the president's challenger said the president failed to level with the american people and call this a terrorist attack because you had to be concerned about another terrorist attack from al qaeda in the middle east after the president said that al qaeda had been defeated. >> that's preposterous and offensive to...